Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4764
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1966
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Lychgate at the Church of St Mary
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Town
Locality
Tal-y-llyn
Easting
271069
Northing
309386
Street Side
SE
Location
The parish church of St Mary stands at the S end of Tal-y-llyn lake, within a sub-rectangular churchyard, beside the main road from Minffordd to Aber. This lychgate is in the churchyard wall S of the church, at the foot of the slope of Mynydd Rugog.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The lychgate through the churchyard wall S of the church was built probably in the C18 to serve the parishioners in the Corris valley at times when the road through Minffordd was flooded.
Exterior
The simple stone lychgate has inner and outer gables mastering a slate roof with cavetto eaves. Near semi-circular arches, the inner arch with a backing arch of shaped timber, the equivalent on the outer arch has been replaced. Iron gates.
Interior
Open raftered roof on a single tier of purlins.
Reason for designation
Included as a lychgate of vernacular character, of group value with the grade II* Church of St Mary and its NW lychgate, and of historical interest as being a separate provision for the convenience of the outlying parishioners arriving by foot from over the mountain in the Corris valley.
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